Vol. 51 (1)
March / Marzo 2003
CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS
Botany / Botánica
Alexander Fco. Rojas-Alvarado
New taxa, new records and redefined concepts in the Elaphoglossum sect. Elaphoglossum subsec. Pachyglossa (Lomariopsidaceae) from Mexico and Central America
Alexander Fco. Rojas-Alvarado
Notes on Elaphoglossum (Lomariopsidaceae) section Polytrichia subsection Hybrida in Mexico and Central America
Leticia Pacheco & Ramón Riba†
Gametofitos de nueve especies de Callipteris y su comparación con otros géneros de la familia Woodsiaceae
Roxana Aragón & Martha Groom
Invasion by Ligustrum lucidum (Oleaceae) in NW Argentina: early stage characteristics in different habitat types
Alejandro Flores-Palacios & José G. García-Franco
Effects of floral display and plant abundance on fruit production of Ryncholaelia glauca (Orchidaceae)
F.D. Calonge, Milagro Mata & Julieta Carranza
Calvatia sporocristata sp. nov. (Gasteromycetes) from Costa Rica
Microbiology / Microbiología
Klaus Gocke, José Ernesto Mancera Pineda & Adriana Vallejo
Heterotrophic microbial activity and organic matter degradation in coastal lagoons of Colombia
Limnology / Limnología
Akin-Oriola G.A.
On the phytoplankton of Awba reservoir, Ibadan, Nigeria
Kurt A. Haberyan, Sally P. Horn & Gerardo Umaña V.
Basic limnology of fifty-one lakes in Costa Rica
Aquatic Invertebrates / Invertebrados Acuáticos
Francisco Kelmo & Martin J. Attrill
Shallow-water Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecatae) from Northern Bahía, Brazil
Paula Braga Gomes, Mauricio Oscar Zamponi & Antonio Mateo Solé-Cava
Asexual reproduction and molecular systematics of the sea anemone Anthopleura krebsi (Actiniaria: Actiniidae)
Luis E. González-Escalante & Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo
A new estuarine species, Nereis garwoodi (Polychaeta: Nereididae), from Bahía Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast
Patricia Briones-Fourzán & Enrique Lozano-Álvarez
Factors affecting growth of the spiny lobsters Panulirus gracilis and Panulirus inflatus (Decapoda: Palinuridae) in Guerrero, México
Silvia Mille-Pagaza, A. Pérez-Chi & M. E. Sánchez-Salazar
Littoral Decapods of Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico
Ella Vázquez-Domínguez
Diversidad y distribución de crustáceos y equinodermos y su relación con niveles de sedimentación en arrecifes coralinos
Maria José Nascimento Lopes Elidiomar Ribeiro Da-Silva & Victor Py-Daniel
A new species of Ulmeritoides from Brazil (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae)
Terrestrial Invertebrates / Invertebrados Terrestres
Raúl Contreras-Medina, Carlos A. Ruiz-Jiménez & Isolda Luna Vega
Caterpillars of Eumaeus childrenae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) feeding on two species of cycads (Zamiaceae) in the Huasteca region, Mexico
E.M. Moraes & F.M. Sene
Relationships between necrotic cactus availability and population size in a cactophilic Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) located on a sandstone table hill in Brazil
Aquatic Vertebrates / Vertebrados Acuáticos
Nora Eslava, Leo W. González & Daniel Gaertner
Asociación de la abundancia y la distribución vertical de atunes y peces de pico en el sureste del Mar Caribe
Gómez-Márquez, J.L., B. Peña-Mendoza, I.H. Salgado-Ugarte & M. Guzmán-Arroyo
Reproductive aspects of Oreochromis niloticus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) at Coatetelco lake, Morelos, Mexico
Terrestrial Vertebrates / Vertebrados Terrestres
Eliana M. Muñoz, Angela M. Ortega, Brian C. Bock & Vivian P. Páez
Demografía y ecología de anidación de la iguana verde, Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae), en dos poblaciones explotadas en la Depresión Momposina, Colombia
Márcio S. Castro, Shirlei M. Recco-Pimentel & Guaracy T. Rocha
Sexual dimorphism in Ramphastos toco and Ramphastos dicolorus (Piciformes, Aves)
Biomedicine / Biomedicina
Adriana Suárez, María Mercedes Echandi, Guido Ulate, & José F. Cicció
Pharmacological activity of the essential oil of Satureja viminea (Lamiaceae)
Adrián Pinto, Yamileth Angulo, Rafael Jiménez & Bruno Lomonte
Isolation of bothrasperin, a disintegrin with potent platelet aggregation inhibitory activity, from the venom of the snake Bothrops asper
Range Extensions / Ampliaciones de Ambito
Ricardo Alvarez-León
Occurrence of Rhabdadenia biflora (Apocynaceae) in swamps of the Colombian coast
Ricardo Alvarez-León, Brian Labercome & Luz Myriam Moreno-Bejarano
First record of nine birds species from Río Magdalena, Colombian Caribbean
E.J. Hyslop
Additions to the freshwater malacofauna of Jamaica
J. Romero, H. Severeyn & R. Chávez
Gregariella coralliophaga, new criptofaunal bivalve mollusk for Venezuelan waters
J. Romero, H. Severeyn & Y. García De Severeyn
Geukensia demissa, new species for the Venezuelan malacological fauna
Ricardo Alvarez-León, Robin M. Overstreet, Sofía Sepúlveda-Cárdenas & Javier E. Alvarez-Barrera
First report of the association Loxothylacus texanus (Cirripedia: Sacculinidae) - Goniopsis cruentata (Crustacea: Grapsidae) in the Colombian Caribbean
Ricardo Alvarez-León
New records of crustaceans from Tayrona Natural National Park, Colombian Caribbean
Yusbelly J. Díaz & Alberto Martín
Range extension of Isopodidus janum (Tanaidacea: Colletteidae) from tropical western Atlantic
Yusbelly J. Díaz & Alberto Martín
Primer registro de Tropichelura gomezi (Amphipoda: Cheluridae) para el Caribe Sur
Alberto Martín
Bemlos kunkelae (Amphipoda: Aoridae) en el Mar Caribe
Yellinet Ayala & Alberto Martín
Ampliación del ámbito de Podocerus kleiudus (Amphipoda: Podoceridae) al Mar Caribe
Ingo S. Wehrtmann & Rita Vargas
New records and range extensions of shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Caridea) from the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica, Central America
Peter Ajtai, Yolanda Camacho-García & Ingo S. Wehrtmann
Range extension of Crosslandia daedali (Nudibranchia: Scyllaeidae)
Ricardo Alvarez-León & Robin M. Overstreet
First report of Caranx hippos (Pisces, Carangidae), as host of Lernaeolopus striatus (Copepoda, Lernaeolopidoidae), in the Colombian Caribbean coast
José R. Turrubiates M.
Range extension for the sea cucumber Selenkothuria lubricaon (Holothurioidea) the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico
Carlos Álvarez Silva
Primer registro de Pyrosoma atlanticum (Tunicata: Thaliacea) en las costas del Pacífico mexicano
Leonardo Mendoza-Uribe & John Chávez Chorocco
New records of mites (Gamasida: Spinturnicidae) on Peruvian bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)
Jeffrey Ortiz-Gamboa
Conura (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) parasitoide de Dione juno (Lepidoptera: Heliconiinae)
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos & José M.S. Vilhena
First record of the ant genus Tatuidris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Brazil
Carlos Roberto Sousa-Silva, Manya B. Stoetzel & Edson Ortiz
First report of Phylloxere notebilis (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae), in the Neotropical Region
Ana Lucía Benfatti González Peronti, Carlos Roberto Sousa-Silva & Fernando Albano Llharco
First report of Melanaphis bambusee (Homoptera: Aphididae) in the Neotropical Region
Javier E. Alvarez-Barrera, Sofía Sepúlveda-Cárdenas & Ricardo Alvarez-León
Macrofauna associated to fish ponds in the Oriental Plains of Colombia
Ricardo Alvarez-León
First report of 24 fish from shrimp trawling, by-catch in the Colombian Caribbean coast
Adam Ben-Tuvia, Ricardo Alvarez-León & Iván Rey-Carrasco
First report of seven fish species from the bottom, of Colombian Caribbean waters
John Lyons
Algansea aphanea (Pisces: Cyprinidae) in the State of Jalisco, Mexico
Ricardo Alvarez-León
First report of the lizard Phyllodactylus ventralis (Sauria: Gekkonidae), from a mangrove in Colombia
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso
Liolaemus altissimus araucaniensis (Sauria: Tropiduridae: Liolaeminae) en Antuco, Chile
Book Reviews / Reseñas de Libro
Julián Monge-Nájera
Olabashi-Araoye, M. 2003.
Research methodology with statistics for health and social sciences
Michel Montoya
Fet, V., W.D. Sisson, G. Lowe & M.E. Braunwalder. 2000. Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998)